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March 24

Recording football matches and other television programs from my satellite box to store on computer's hard drive.

What devices would I need for doing this? Nicholasprado (talk) 02:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

MythTV supports some set-top boxes. Or you can capture the video out with a Video capture card RudolfRed (talk) 04:07, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When my Sky+ HD box brokedown a couple of months ago, I looked into a way of copying what I had recorded onto my PC (so I could then copy the recordings onto a new box). Using Google, I found various software for doing this, but I'm not sure how much was actually able to play the recordings on the PC - that wasn't a feature I was looking for. All involved removing the Sky box's hard drive and connecting it to your PC with a USB cable. That sounds simple, but it involved taking the box apart.

If the objective is simply to get some recorded football on your computer, a video capture card is just what you need connected to the SCART or RF ports on the back of the satellite box. However, if the objective is to watch live Premiership football while travelling or working in Europe, there are better ways. For example, many bars in major cities will show live games with English language commentary and you'll get a much better atmosphere than watching last weeks game huddled over your laptop in a hotel room. Astronaut (talk) 12:27, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chameleon song

I think I have heard a "Chameleon song" somewhere. Its refrain goes something like this:

Chama-chama-chama-chama-chamelee-ee-on... you come and go... you come and go..."

Which song is this? JIP | Talk 21:09, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Karma Chameleon, by Culture Club. Tevildo (talk) 21:17, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Boy George, I think you've got it ! StuRat (talk) 21:46, 24 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]

Anyone who knows this is showing their age. Anyone who doesn't know it is also showing their age. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 21:36, 24 March 2013 (UTC) [reply]

A fairly precise age-test joke - "What's the difference between Babylon Zoo and Manchester United? United will still be playing Giggs in 1997." Tevildo (talk) 21:58, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Must be regional... --Onorem ♠Dil 00:54, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Darn. Now I have an earworm. Tum te tum te tum te tumty tumty tum te tum ... Gandalf61 (talk) 13:13, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just a friendly reminder, this could have been found with Google quite easily. I searched for "come and go" lyrics and the first page was filled with links to "Karma Chameleon" references. Dismas|^(talk) 04:49, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

are these movies fascist movies

trolling by indef'd user

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Are action movies about brutal crime-fighters--such as Dirty Harry, Death Wish (film), Robocop and Elite Squad--fascist movies. Dont take the the question too literally. i dont mean were they produced by a fascist nation or by a member of a fascist politcal party. i just mean do they really promote an authoritarian right-wing viewpoint.--There goes the internet (talk) 22:07, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All of them are about removing dangerous people from the streets. How does that qualify as "fascism"? And they weren't produced by political parties, but by businessmen in the movie industry. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:14, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

read the second and third sentences of my question. i know they weren't made by literal fascists. but every right wink iron fisted regime, from the militaristas in south america and the Nazis removed what they demeed to be "dangerous people" from the streets. it's the methods you use to remove these undersirables, and the reasoning behind it, that makes you a fascist in the colloquial sense. with that in mind, could these movies be considered fascist?--There goes the internet (talk) 01:11, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This explains why some of those movies could be called fascist. Dirty Harry was called fascist by multiple film reviewers upon release; while not correct according to many definitions, this essay explains why the term was applied. I haven't seen Elite Squad, but I don't think that either Death Wish (a revenge fantasy) or RoboCop (an anti-fascist parable) have the same elements that Dirty Harry had to evoke that response. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 00:58, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you this is a helpful answer. I will read the reviews that you linked to about Dirty Harry. You know maybe I was thinking about Robocop *2* where Robocop is turned into a wimp because he is reprogrammed with all this liberal touchy-feely directives and he is not able to stop crime because he is no longer brutal and violent. Likewise, I was thinking Death Wish might be "fascist" because it saying our current system is too soft on the undesirables and they can only be rooted out with an iron fist. if the government did its job (to deal harshly and swiftly with people), we wouldnt need people like Charles Bronson to come after them.--There goes the internet (talk) 01:11, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

These movies are basically just westerns in modern clothes. Are westerns "fascist"? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Riefenstahl’s portrait of them [the Nuba] is consistent with some of the larger themes of Nazi ideology: the contrast between the clean and the impure, the incorruptible and the defiled, the physical and the mental, the joyful and the critical. A principal accusation against the Jews within Nazi Germany was that they were urban, intellectual, bearers of a destructive, corrupting “critical spirit.” (The book bonfire of May, 1933, was launched with Goebbels’s cry: “The age of extreme Jewish intellectualism has now ended, and the success of the German revolution has again given the right of way to the German spirit.” And when Goebbels officially forbade art criticism in November, 1936, it was for having “typically Jewish traits of character”: putting the head over the heart, the individual over the community, intellect over feeling.) Now it is “civilization” itself that is the defiler.

What is distinctive about the fascist version of the old idea of the Noble Savage is its contempt for all that is reflective, critical, and pluralistic. In Riefenstahl’s casebook of primitive virtue, it is hardly the intricacy and subtlety of primitive myth, social organization, or thinking that are being extolled. She is especially enthusiastic about the ways the Nuba are exalted and unified by the physical ordeals of their wrestling matches, in which the “heaving and straining” Nuba men, “huge muscles bulging,” throw one another to the ground—fighting not for material prizes but “for the renewal of sacred vitality of the tribe.” [1] Gzuckier (talk) 03:30, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I read that article a long time ago about the nubian movie by that lady. but i think they're talking about *literal* fascism when they criticize riefenstahl. can this also be applied to the action moves i mentions.--There goes the internet (talk) 04:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is not an internet forum. Please engage in debate elsewhere. μηδείς (talk) 03:35, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the second Dirty Harry film, Magnum Force, shows the dangers of the police operating outside the law. For another movie with a similar message, see The Star Chamber. StuRat (talk) 04:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Fascism#Tenets for the definition of the term. The bottom line is, one of the necessary (but not sufficient) conditions for a movie (book, computer game, website, etc.) to be defined as "fascist" is that it must openly declare a belief in the intrinic, biological superiority of some ethnicities over others -- in other words, if it's not openly racist, it can't be fascist! 24.23.196.85 (talk) 04:30, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]